CVE-2014-9938

Publication date 19 March 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh in Git before 1.9.3 does not sanitize branch names in the PS1 variable, allowing a malicious repository to cause code execution.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
git	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:1.9.1-1ubuntu0.4
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

PoC: https://github.com/njhartwell/pw3nage only affects 1.8.1+

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
git	Upstream: 8976500

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H